An activist - or member - of the AWL is expected to:
Usually this means attending a local AWL branch meeting each week, doing regular street or door-to-door sales with our publications, arguing for socialist ideas in your workplace, college, or trade union branch, and joining with other AWL members to help build the campaigns, protests, demonstrations and other activities we organise or support. Activists also take part in political education classes or study groups, sometimes run as part of our branch meetings and sometimes separately. Other routine activities include producing and distributing workplace bulletins. It's hard work, but we do keep it to a level where it can be sustained over a long period without overstrain or exhaustion.
There is a six month period of 'candidate' membership for all activists. Before becoming full members, new activists go through a basic education course and establish a regular pattern of activity (this system is designed to ensure that the people who vote on our policy are those who are carry it out).
If you want to help our work, but are not willing to become an AWL activist, you can become an AWL sympathiser. We ask sympathisers to pay us a regular financial contribution - as much or as little as you like. Only activists have a deciding vote in our political decisions (e.g. at our AGM).